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The Snouted Tigers (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Aganainae) of Papua Indonesia

by Jaap Zwier

Asota australis (Boisduval, 1832)

ssp. australis (Boisduval, 1832)
aequalis Walker, 1864
lineata Rothschild, 1897
wollastoni Rothschild, 1915
anadota Tams, 1935
ssp. sinuosa Rothschild, 1897
septentrionalis Rothschild, 1897

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Asota australis ssp. sinuosa [ZMAN]

Distribution

 

 

STATUS: Rather rare. Subspecies australis is on the map represented by red dots, ssp. sinuosa by blue dots.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Waigeo; Salawati; Misool; New Guinea: Ampas, Ati Ati Onin, Etna Bay, Genyem, Humboldt Bay, Jayapura, Mabilabol, Manokwari, Sentani, Ubrub. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: From the Moluccas, through New Guinea to the Bismarck Archipelago and d'Entrecasteaux Islands.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, CMWM, KSP, RMNH, SNSD, ZMAN, ZMHB. Literature (see below)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Gorbunov, O.G. & A.N. Zamesov, 2014. To the knowledge of Macroheterocera of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. I. Snouted Tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Aganaidae) of Papua Province, Indonesia. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea 2: 157-165.